Using Menus and MDI Forms
One of the worst interfaces ever created was the Menu Editor in Visual Basic 6 and earlier. It was a top complaint of developers; Microsoft heard their screams and provided an amazing, easy-to-use Menu Editor in Windows Forms. In addition to the editor being great, because items added to a menu are derived from a Menu class, you can easily create menu items dynamically at runtime, which was almost possible in Visual Basic 6. To test the new Menu Editor's features, you're going to create a Multiple Document Interface (MDI) application. The flexibility of MDI applications in .NET has also improved dramatically, as you'll see when you're done with the following exercise.
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The HelloNET application has been a SDI (single ...
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